by Jinny Webber | Nov 20, 2019 | Sex and Gender in Shakespeare's England |
This is Ambassador Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anou, who led a Moorish delegation to Queen Elizabeth in 1600 to make an alliance against their common enemy, Spain. Although they failed to raise a fleet between them, he and his embassy remained in London...
by Jinny Webber | Nov 1, 2019 | Shakespeare and Fiction |
THE NORNS As the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth await the arrival of Macbeth and Banquo (Act I, scene 3), they chant: Posters of the sea and land, The weird sisters, hand in hand, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine and thrice to mine And thrice again, to...